tough
/təf/
कठिन
noun
1. street fighter
someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
2. hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, toughie, strong-armer
an aggressive and violent young criminal
3. bully, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo
a cruel and brutal fellow
adjective
1. tough
not given to gentleness or sentimentality
"a tough character"
2. rugged
very difficult
severely testing stamina or resolution
"a rugged competitive examination"
"the rugged conditions of frontier life"
"the competition was tough"
"it's a tough life"
"it was a tough job"
3. toughened
physically toughened
"the tough bottoms of his feet"
4. sturdy
substantially made or constructed
"sturdy steel shelves"
"sturdy canvas"
"a tough all-weather fabric"
"some plastics are as tough as metal"
5. ruffianly
violent and lawless
"the more ruffianly element"
"tough street gangs"
6. bad
feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
"my throat feels bad"
"she felt bad all over"
"he was feeling tough after a restless night"
7. tough
resistant to cutting or chewing
8. hard
unfortunate or hard to bear
"had hard luck"
"a tough break"
9. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical
making great mental demands
hard to comprehend or solve or believe
"a baffling problem"
"I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"
"a problematic situation at home"
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